Landslide buries 12 residents of South Tapanuli 12 hours ago
illustration of a landslide Sipirok (ANTARA) - A landslide hit the Batang Toru hydropower plant area in Marancar, South Tapanuli District, North Sumatra Province, and buried 12 people on Thursday evening.
The 12 people were still missing and believed to have been buried by the landslide, Parulian Nasution, secretary of the South Tapanuli District Administration, stated here on Friday. Last night, the entire team held a coordination meeting to conduct the evacuation this morning. The fate of all (missing victims) is not yet known, he remarked.
The search and rescue operations were being conducted by a joint team comprising personnel of the military, police, local disaster mitigation office, and volunteers.
Handout from Indonesia s National Disaster Management Agency
At least three people were killed and nine missing, officials said Friday, when torrential rains unleashed a landslide near the construction site of a controversial China-backed hydropower plant in Indonesia’s Sumatra region.
This is the second deadly landslide near the site of the U.S. $1.5 billion Batang Toru plant, which is being built in a rainforest where endangered Tapanuli orangutans live.
In Thursday’s landslide, piles of mud and debris spilled from a 50-meter (164 feet) high cliff and swept away locals and some workers below, said a senior official at the regional disaster mitigation agency (BPBD). The slide occurred after three consecutive days of heavy rain.
[Handout from Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency]
At least three people were killed and nine missing, officials said Friday, when torrential rains unleashed a landslide near the construction site of a controversial China-backed hydropower plant in Indonesia’s Sumatra region.
This is the second deadly landslide near the site of the U.S. $1.5 billion Batang Toru plant, which is being built in a rainforest where endangered Tapanuli orangutans live.
In Thursday’s landslide, piles of mud and debris spilled from a 50-meter (164 feet) high cliff and swept away locals and some workers below, said a senior official at the regional disaster mitigation agency (BPBD). The slide occurred after three consecutive days of heavy rain.